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Gaceta Oficial: Venezuela will NOT extend expired Las Brisas concession!
By: El Universal
The Venezuelan government resolved not to extend an expired concession on the Brisas gold project to USA/Canadian mining company Gold Reserve for failure to perform an agreement … including payment of liabilities, authorities reported in the Offici
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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez: the most popular leader in the Middle East
By: Hilary Keenan
The results of the new survey of ‘Arab opinion’ conducted by Zogby International show that Barack Obama has a much more favorable rating than did his predecessor as US president. But when asked to name the world leaders whom they most admire, the par
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s detention at Caracas International airport ends
By: El Universal
Shortly after contacting the media on the phone, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, the son of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, was allowed to enter Venezuela following his detention for almost two hours at the Maiquetia international airport. “They prevented m
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Son of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa detained at Maiquetia airport
By: El Universal
Rafael Alonso, the chair of Venezuelan NGO Center for Dissemination of Knowledge (CEDICE), reported on Monday on the detention at Maiquetia international airport of writer Alvaro Vargas Llosa, the son of Mario Vargas Llosa, who arrived in Venezuela t
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Deputy Ismael Garcia airs government plan to raid Central University (UCV)
By: El Universal
“There’s an entire government plan aimed at seizing the UCV, bringing discredit on the Central University of Venezuela, its authorities and student leaders … this plan is accompanied by a National Assembly proposal to request an investigation from
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Russian Prime Minister, Chavez discuss cooperation matters in phone talk
By: Itar-Tass
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had a telephone talk on Monday to discuss cooperation in the fields of energy, finances, and military-technical cooperation (MTC), Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russ
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Government bluntly denies the deployment of FARC chiefs in Venezuela
By: El Universal
The Venezuelan government bluntly denied the presence of chiefs of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in Venezuela on Monday and claimed that such remarks form part of a “continued, sustained campaign” launched by some media. “We
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Venezuela denies Gold Reserve concession Las Brisas del Cuyuni extension
By: Reuters
Venezuela has ended U.S. miner Gold Reserve’s concession for the large Las Brisas del Cuyuni project, located in one of Latin America’s largest gold deposits, part of a strategy to increase state control of key economic sectors. Las Brisas is in the
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Intelligence report: Colombian FARC leaders are hiding in Venezuela
By: El Universal
Several leaders of the Colombian guerrilla, who are members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), have sought refuge in Venezuela, Ecuador and Cuba, some of them permanently and others for a while, to avoid authorities, according to an
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Auto industry goes into reverse as used vehicles sell for more than new
By: Rory Carroll
It sounds like a dodgy sales pitch from Arthur Daley: buy a car, drive it out of the showroom and watch its value instantly jump 10%. The fictional wheeler-dealer was known for bending the truth, but in Venezuela he would be spot-on. Here, used cars
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Official figures show that Venezuela is failing to comply with its OPEC quotas
By: El Universal
The Venezuelan Ministry of Energy & Petroleum requested the British firm Inspectorate to audit its oil and by-products exports from November 2008 to March 2009 as part of its efforts to clarify the levels of production. However, official figures show
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Linde plant to supply hydrogen to CITGO’s Lemont, Illinois, oil refinery
By: PR-USA-net
Linde has executed a new long term contract with PdV Midwest Refining LLC to supply hydrogen to the company’s CITGO Lemont, Illinois, oil refinery. The hydrogen will be produced by a new plant that Linde is building for CITGO’s production of ultra-lo
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Can OPEC save the world economy? …Cheap oil? …Not for long!
By: Andrew McKillop
We can note that only about 10 years ago, ‘New Economists’ could still proclaim oil and gold as Sunset Commodities. Resource depletion, let alone climate change never featured in the stock of Adam Smith slogans from about 1760 — reworked as wildly i
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That amount of money does wonders for Venezuela’s creditworthiness
By: Arthur Shaw
Venezuela’s oil basket rose $0.77 to $53.15 a barrel last week, the week ending May 22.
Oil experts chiefly explained the weekly change as a result of (1) breakdowns at major US refineries, (2) armed conflict in Nigeria, (3) low weekly oil invento
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Venezuelan police officers shoot first, ask questions shows no signs of abating
By: Laht.com
The tendency of less than law-abiding Venezuelan police officers to shoot first and ask questions afterwards — if ever — shows no signs of abating even as public odium pours on their heads. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz has announced that 155
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President Hugo Chavez takes Venezuela on an ever longer takeover trail
By: Laht.com
President Hugo Chavez’ $1.050 billion takeover of Banco de Venezuela from the Santander group of Spain means that he has now spent or committed close to $4.1 billion on nationalizing private companies since the turn of the year. Critics claim that th
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Caracas … for a city in gridlock, motorizados are a lifeline and a scourge
By: Meridith Kohut
Motorists despise them. Pedestrians fear them. Highway bandits lie in wait for them. Leftist leaders call them unsung heroes. And this anarchic city, its love affair with the car notwithstanding, would collapse if not for them: the thousands of darin
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The Media and the Plot against Evo Morales … silence has been deafening
By: Zoltan Zigedy
After casting doubt on the official Bolivian account of the thwarting on April 16 of a para-military assassination plot against President Evo Morales, the mainstream US press has been silent on the events that unfolded six weeks ago. Since Bolivian s
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